mental fitness for musicians

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  • An Unexpected RV Visit aka Being a Grownup is Hard

    I have been debating writing this entry because I am simultaneously excited and scared of disappointment. Last week, I passed an RV in a driveway in Derry that was for sale. It looked like a decent, small class C and had a posted asking price of $5,000. I knew enough from all my research (hard…

  • Setbacks and Soldiering On

    I haven’t written in a while. For months this spring and summer, I felt like I was in a groove. After getting a church job to make extra income on Sundays, I was also regularly picking up voice students and taking on vocal coaching. Plus I have been working on transcribing vocals for a local…

  • Planning While Under the Influence of Mono

    Yup. I have mono. apparently. If this was my first time facing mono, I would accept the diagnosis at face value. But I actually had it when I was 19 in college, and apparently people aren’t supposed to get mono twice. So we have some investigating to do…do I have chronic mono? Or another condition…

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